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California African American Museum

Name: California African American Museum
Address: 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles, CA, 90037, US
Telephone: (213) 744-7432
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Now Open CAAM is a hub for exploring African American art, history, and culture, with a focus on California and the West.
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We are located in Los Angeles' Exposition Park and admission is free!

08/31/2026

! Thank you for exploring our exhibitions and programs this August. We ❤️ when you tag us in your photos so we can see and share your experience. Here are some of our favorite posts from this month!

08/30/2026

CLOSING SOON AT ART+PRACTICE (3401 W. 43rd Place Los Angeles, CA 90008):
“Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me”

“Between a Memory and Me” is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of work by Rahim Fortune. Born in Austin, Texas, and raised in the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, Fortune uses photography to explore the layered, complex nature of American identity, foregrounding the connections between the communities he photographs and the land they inhabit.

Fortune’s black-and-white photographs from his Hardtack project weave together tender and reverent portraits of Black life, vast landscapes, and closeup studies. The exhibition also includes Fortune’s new color photographs, commissioned by Aperture and Documentary Arts and created in response to the Texas African American Photography Archive. Fortune’s short film, also on view, takes viewers through the fields and roads of rural Texas, lingering lovingly on quiet, exquisite details. Together they celebrate the histories embedded in the landscape of the American South and the traditions they carry forward.
“Between a Memory and Me” is organized by the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The exhibition is co-presented by the California African American Museum and Art + Practice as part of CAAM at A+P, a five-year collaboration.

08/29/2026

CLOSING SOON AT ART+PRACTICE (3401 W. 43rd Place Los Angeles, CA 90008):
“Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive”

Throughout the twentieth century, nearly every small town in the United States boasted a local studio photographer. These skilled image makers were dedicated to recording the people and events of their communities. Much of this vernacular visual culture has been dispersed or destroyed. “Kinship & Community” takes a look at a rare slice of that history, focusing on the work of Black photographers working in urban neighborhoods and rural villages across eastern Texas from 1944 to 1984.
Central to the exhibition is the role of the community photographer, who documents, even shapes, a close-knit place by emphasizing the people and rituals of everyday life: portraits, parties, rodeos, church meetings, parades, political gatherings, and school photos. Drawn from the Texas African American Photography Archive, the works span some of the most volatile and consequential years of the civil rights movement, collectively showing the daily experiences of Black life in Texas against the backdrop of segregation and a rapidly changing world.
“Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive” is organized by the Center for Photography at Woodstock and curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood, independent curator and Paulette Goddard Professor at New York University, with research assistance from Eva Cilman and Anisa Jackson. The exhibition is co-presented by the California African American Museum and Art + Practice as part of CAAM at A+P, a five-year collaboration.

08/28/2026

Installation views of “Rahim Fortune: Between a Memory and Me” on view at Art + Practice through September 5, 2026.
This exhibition is organized by the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The exhibition is co-presented by the California African American Museum and Art + Practice as part of CAAM at A+P, a five-year collaboration.

📷: JWPictures, Inc.

08/27/2026

“The exhibition opens a door on a little-known part of Langston Hughes’s life and work, and shows that he spent a lot of time in California.” History curator Susan D. Anderson speaks about “A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West” on view at CAAM through September 13. Check it out while it’s still up!

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This exhibition is curated by Susan D. Anderson, History Curator, with curatorial assistance by Lauren O’Brien, independent curator, and Carmen Beals, Associate Curator and Outreach Director, Nevada Museum of Art.

08/25/2026

This Wednesday, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., join Justen LeRoy, independent curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs and Programs at Art + Practice, as he provides an in-depth tour of “The Sound of Gordon Parks.”

Free RSVP is encouraged, but not required. Walk-ins welcome. Bringing a large group? Email the CAAM team at [email protected].

08/24/2026

Tomorrow, 2:00 – 3:00 p.m., at CAAM, join Susan D. Anderson, History Curator, as she provides an in-depth tour of “A New Song: Langston Hughes in the West.”

Free RSVP is encouraged, but not required. Walk-ins welcome. Bringing a large group? Email the CAAM team at [email protected].

08/17/2026

“When you look at the images of many of the community photographers, there’s this insistence on joy, on pride, on self-preservation and presentation.”

Artist Rahim Fortune speaks to “Between a Memory and Me,” his first solo exhibition in Los Angeles now on view at A+P alongside “Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive” through September 5.

08/10/2026

Sit and stay awhile with photos from Texas at Art+Practice. “Kinship & Community is on view through September 5 in Leimert Park.

“Kinship & Community: Selections from the Texas African American Photography Archive” is organized by the Center for Photography at Woodstock and curated by Nicole R. Fleetwood, independent curator and Paulette Goddard Professor at New York University, with research assistance from Eva Cilman and Anisa Jackson. The exhibition is co-presented by the California African American Museum and Art + Practice as part of CAAM at A+P, a five-year collaboration.

📷: JWPictures, Inc.

08/07/2026

On Sunday, August 9, 12:00 – 2:00 p.m., move through a 60-minute flow with yoga and meditation teacher Constance Hartwell, followed by a 60-minute sound bath led by Sol & Sound. No previous experience is necessary. Please bring your own yoga mat. Indoors.

RSVP: linktr.ee/CAAMinLA

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600 State Drive, Exposition Park
Los Angeles, CA
90037

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Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	11am - 5pm

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(213) 744-7432

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http://www.caamuseum.org/

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